You say "usmca," I say "U-S-M-C-A"

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dara and Matt on the congressional debate over Trump's trade deal. What to read: "USMCA, the new trade deal between the US, Canada, and Mexico, explained" by Jen Kirby, Vox "How the Trans-Pacific Partnership could drive up the cost of medicine worldwide" by Julia Belluz, Vox "How Canada's supply management system works" by John Paul Tasker, CBC White paper Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds **COME SEE THE WEEDS LIVE ON FRI., DECEMBER 18TH IN WASHINGTON D.C. (TICKETS HERE)** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bum bum bum
0:02.6	You, S, and C, yeah
0:16.3	Hello welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Galacius joined today by Dara Lin from Pro Publica
0:23.4	Jane is in Australia. We're just gonna do it one-on-one. Yeah, two-hander. It's gonna be miraculous
0:30.0	So we wanted to talk about
0:32.0	Assamqa
0:33.0	Assamqa is that really how we're pronouncing it? Oh, USMCA. I guess the alternative is just having the YMCA stuck in my head the whole episode
0:41.7	Which I guess now it will be anyone see this is we're in different places in life. So I've been going with the B.I. N. Geo
0:48.2	Oh, I like that. All right. We'll do that. Yeah
0:53.2	S-MCA
0:56.2	This is the successor to NAFTA that the Trump administration negotiated with the leaders of Mexico and Canada
1:04.0	Quite some time ago, but which has been pending ratification in the United States
1:09.6	Congress which in practice appears to mean renegotiations this time as a
1:15.6	Negotiation between Democrats and Republicans right or at least between Democrats in Congress and the Trump administration
1:21.2	Let's put it that way. Yes, exactly. And it's so it's it's tied up to something sent with with House Democrats and Donald Trump
1:27.3	And I want to get into the fact that Democrats thinking on this appears to be
1:32.5	heavily shaped by
1:34.3	Ideas about electoral politics and the consequences of going forward with this or not
1:39.0	But I do want to bracket that right a little bit and talk about the actual substance of this when this first came out
1:45.8	I think most of the commentary some of it written by me
1:49.5	But much of it written elsewhere was making the point that
1:54.3	relative to the rhetoric of
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